Astonishing X-Men

Dream-team creators Joss Whedon (TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and John Cassaday (Planetary, Captain America) present the explosive, all-new flagship X-Men series, marking a return to classic greatness and the beginning of a brand-new era for the X-Men! Cyclops and Emma Frost re-form the X-Men with the express purpose of "astonishing" the world. But when breaking news regarding the mutant gene unexpectedly hits the airwaves, will it derail their...

"Things go from peculiar to just plain bizarre [as] Emma Frost's erratic behavior has the X-Men spinning in a non-stop downward spiral. Will an unlikely union be the final straw? After secretly lying in wait for months, the new Hellfire Club makes its move! Plus: The X-Man destined to destroy the Breakworld stands revealed! Who is it, and what will be their fate?"--Page 4 of cover.

The X-Men are called to the scene of a murder that appears to have involved heretofore unknown mutants. The team's resident scientist, Beast, discovers that though the victim was indeed a mutant, his mutation appears to be artificially produced. The team races to a spaceship graveyard in Indonesia in their search for the murderer, who they find huddled over the mysterious Ghost Box, preparing to activate it. The murderer reveals himself to also be...

"What do you get when you cross an island full of giant monsters, a telepathic terrorist and a jet full of mad-as-hell mutants? Monstrous action! Mentallo has the perfect plan: take mental control of the denizens of Monster Island and use them to extort his old employers at Roxxon. But when his monsters attack Tokyo at the same time the X-Men are in town ... the mutant heroes are drawn into conflict. Can Wolverine, Cyclops, Emma Frost and Armor take...

After presiding over a mutant schism as leader of the X-Men, it looks like a visit from Storm may make Cyclops himself again -- but it quickly becomes apparent that Storm is not herself, either. She's from another reality -- one in which Cyclops soon finds himself a prisoner. And the key to his survival rests in his fellow captives, although they aren't the X-Men he knows.

"The X-Men are under attack when Karma goes rogue, psychically assaulting her teammates as she loses her grip on reality, and Wolverine explodes in a ball of fire in Central Park! Infected by nanoworms that control their minds and bodies, the X-Men become puppets of Susan Hatchi, CEO of Hatchi Tech, who intends to demonstrate her power to the world with an assault on the island nation of Madripoor--using the X-Men as her personal army. Will the mutant...